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Population Control Challenges Manufacture/distribution expense Religion Low female status Many studies show that fastest way to reduce fertility rate is to encourage more women to get educated Preference for male children Female Infanticide Overpopulation When consumption of natural resources by people outstrip the ability of a natural region to replace those natural resources. predicted that innovation and the resulting increased wealth and choice it creates would provide alternate foods and resources in the future and lead to fewer children per family and improving societies: larger populations are good because they lead to more innovations and ideas. believed that society was perfectible Jean Antoine Condorcet (1743 – 1794) Thomas Malthus on Population Malthus, responding to Condorcet, predicted population would outrun food supply, leading to a decrease in food per person. Assumptions Populations grow exponentially. Food supply grows arithmetically. Food shortages and chaos inevitable. An Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798 Population J-CurveThis graphs depicts the actual growth in human population from the beginning of agriculture until 2000! Population and the Environment I = P x A x T Impact = Population x Affluence x Technology Population-influenced environmental problems: Global Warming Habitat Loss / Endangered Species Resource Depletion Food Shortages? Not globally, but regionally. Population and Resource Consumption Technology, Energy Consumption, and Environmental Impact There has been a dramatic increase in: individual energy use over time: 3,000 kcal/person - 300,000 kcal/person the power of technology to change the environment: think stone axe versus bulldozer versus atomic bomb. The scope and severity of environmental impacts. The End Population Geography Distribution of World Population Changing Rates of Population Growth Population Statistics Population Pyramids Demographic Transition Theory Overpopulation (Malthus a